Everyone has their trials in life. Things that make their day-to-day challenging in ways that their neighbors’ and friends’ aren’t, and you really don’t know what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes until it happens to you.
If you’re someone who wears glasses, you know there are a million little ways it affects your days and nights, but if you don’t, there’s no way you could realize.
At least until now, because these 13 folks are laying it out in black and white!
13. Babies are hard on glasses.
If you have babies, they are guaranteed to snatch them off your face, then have a death grip on them and you have to peal their tiny little fingers off your glasses while trying not to break them (the glasses and the fingers) all while blind.
Once I was holding my nephew while he was very young and only just learning to control his hands. I could see that he was trying to reach for my glasses which took him a solid 5 seconds of intense concentration, it was like watching a sloth reaching for a piece of fruit. Once he finally got his hands on them, he suddenly developed the hand-eye coordination of a seamstress who speaks sign language, and promptly broke them in half.
12. It definitely gets old.
they will never understand that we can’t see properly but are not blind
so don’t freaking ask me if I’m blind.
11. This is total bollocks.
Insurance never covering anything all the way when it comes to eye care.
JUST got my exams yesterday. They paid 60 of the 80 for my exam, but not the extra tests the DMV required (I failed my vision exam renewing my license) They would pay up to $100 on non-designer frames, and basic lenses.
So even with vision insurance I use once every two years, they save me $160 out of basically $600 for the typical package. They’d cover “Medically Necessary Vision Correction” which means “I’m not blind -enough-, and I can use regular glasses, so f**k me.”
10. How is this a thing?
People not recognizing you when you take them off.
People joke about how unrealistic Clark Kent’s disguise is but honestly, if you wear them often enough your glasses become part of your face in other people’s perception/memory of you.
9. Pick your poison.
Roller Coasters. The wind gets behind the lenses and will snatch the glasses right off your face.
Ride blind, ride with one hand holding your glasses in place, or don’t ride. Thems the choices.
8. Three big things.
Three things:
Watching 3d movies…balancing two pairs of glasses just…no…
Your eyes getting seemingly worse. But it takes so long to get an apointment with an eye doctor. So there you are, not sure if your glasses are still strong enough…such a pain in the butt.
The joy when you switch from glasses to contact lenses. One of the best decisions in my life. Although it also has it’s issue.
7. Headache city.
If you wear headphones to listen to anything they squish the sides of the glasses to you head. After awhile it starts to hurt your head.
I love my over-the-ear headphones but can’t use them while studying or working because they keep pressing the legs against my ears!
6. You actually need them.
Fear of losing, breaking, forgetting the things that let you see properly.
5. None of that is great.
the inconvenience when it’s raining and the masks fogging your glasses up and people asking to see your glasses only to comment how you have worse eye sight then a dead 130 year old.
4. Hopefully you have a backup.
The absolute panic that washes over you if your glasses break, pop a lens out, or you are unfortunate enough to lose them.
3. A long-ish list.
At thirty one years old I have never seen myself without glasses. I literally have no idea what I look like in focus without them. Yes I’ve seen a photo but I have no concept of my face as a 3D object.
Learning to dodge the steam cloud when opening the oven door or, if you forget, resigning yourself to having to wait until you de-mist.
The concept of having to carry spare pairs when on holiday especially when driving because without them you become stranded. I couldn’t even catch a train home without help bc I couldn’t read signs well enough
Any kind of environment where they can get greasy – without a way to clean them you live in a soft focus fog. Enjoy.
The world is divided into two – the framed in focus world and the peripheral out of focus world.
The very specific noise they make when they fall off something in the dark. Once you know that noise you know you’re gonna spend 15 mins patting the floor looking for them later (or asking someone with good vision to find them)
2. It’s a thing.
I go a little deaf when I take off my glasses. I don’t know if I’m an abnormality…
My late mother would say, “wait, I’ll put on my glasses. Now, what was it you wanted to say?” We thought perhaps she might have been unconsciously lip-reading.
1. You need to phone a friend.
Going to the store to try on new frames is an exercise in futility because you can’t actually see what the new frames look like on your face if you’re not wearing your glasses.
As someone who has worn glasses since middle school, I can attest that all of this is true.
If you’ve got more firsthand experience for people, drop it in the comments!
